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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
Easy Discipline for Children.

AS people, we are inclined to make
work out of play. In Good Housekeep-
ing Clarissa Potter has something to say
about "making play of work. She
says:
"Did you ever hit on this way to get
cluttered sitting room put to rights by
the very little folks who have brought
about in it chaos itself. The children
think it great fun to overturn chairs and
hang rugs on them for tent doors; to
strew the carpet with playthings and
snippings of paper; to drop books, picture
cards, building blocks, and dolly and her
wardrobe, just where the newest tack
of their latest play left them; but it
is not always fun, either for you or them,
to get all this litter and clutter picked up
and cleared away.
"Ot late we have made little game
OF such work by giving each child SO.
many breadths of the carpet, and all that
might be upon them, to put in perfect
order. There are five breadths in our
sitting-room carpet, and at such COR
ner' in the disorderly state of the room, 1
give two breadths = not consecutive,
lengths-to each of the two older child
rem, aud the fifth breadth to the little
three-year- old, choosing for her the strip
of carpet that has the least litter upon it
When little children have keen interest
in such work, it is surprising how swift
ly and deity they will straighten rugs,
fold papers, pick up shreds and litter,
and pack away playthings.
"From end to end of their carpet
breadths our small people go-setting
back chairs, making neat piles of the scat
cred books and papers that clutter the
tables and shelves, winding the stray
Cling threads in mammals spool and yarn
baskets if they chance to be in their ter
ritory, winging the hearth, and pstting
pillows, till even mammals eharp eyes
cannot see a rsveling to pick or one
more paper to fold She can quietly 60
on with her sewing or mendinR all through
d lOuB dItCIAOOu WHO nCI iOOLu - after
nately being put in and then put out of
order, only she must be wise enough to
plan that the former comes last on the
program before their supper or bed time
hour comes.
"Ihe children are so quick to notice and
herald each others oversights and any
slovenliness in this playwork of clearing
sections of the room, that 1 have little
need to call their attention to any article
or scrap left out Of place. Even the baby
will trot across the room 10 reprovingly
point to a wrinkled rug or an overlooked
toy Cd a strip of her little sisters terri
tory, and gravely says: See thereP II a
chair orstable, with it's tumbled heap of
books or papers, stands on two carpet
breadths, the exacting little landholders
require each other to put to rights just
such part as stands on their division
of territory, and the chair, basket or
stand, / have seen the little tots good ma.
turedly lug away together"
With little ingenuity children can
soon be taught to "pick up" their toys,
and to put back the articles they have
| displaced.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09

patton, did not take advantage of the pro-
posed amendment; on which the bride
groom again reminded him of the omis-
sion-"Ay, and obey, sir-love, honor
and obey, ye ken!" and he seemed very
seriously discomposed at finding that his
hint was not taken.
Some years afterward the same clergy
man was riding through this village Of
the culinary name, when the same man
came out and stopped him, addressing
him in the following remarkable words:
"D'ye mind, sir, yon day when ye mar
ried me, and wad insist upon vowing
to obey my wife? Weel, ye may now see
that was in the RIGHT. Whether ye was
or no, I haze obeyed my wife; and behold
am now the only man that has twa-
story house in the hale toun ?"-The
Christian Union.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
LAUGHING AT A FRIEND.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and
heartily, too, at his friend, can be said to
have a true and thorough love for him;
and on the other hand it would betray
sorry want of faith to distrust friend
because he laughs at you. Few men, l
believe, are much worth loving, in whom
there is not something well worth laugh
ing at. That frailty, without some symp-
toms of which man has never been found,
and which in the bad forms the gangrene
for their vices to rankle and tester in,
shows itself also in the best men, and at
taches itself even to their virtues. Only
in them it appears mainly in occasional
awkwardnesses and waywardnesses, in
their falling short or stepping aside now
and then, rather than in their absolute
abandonment OF the path Of duty. 1t is
the earthly particle which tints the color
less ray, and without which that ray is no
object OF human vision. 1t gives them
their determinate features and character
istic expression, constituting them real
persons, instead OF mere personifed ideas.
This, too, is the very thing that enables
us to sympathize with them as with our
brethren, under deeper and gentler feel
ings than those of star-gazing wonder.
Now this incongruity and incompleteness,
this contrast between the pure spiritual
principle and the manner and form of its
actual manifestation, contains the es-
sence Of the ridiculous. The discord
coming athwart the tune, and blending
with it, when not harsh enough to be
painful, is ludicrous.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
MOTIVES FOR MARRIAGE.

That charming writer OF verse and
prose, Mre. Louise Chandler Moul-
ton, has been saying some very sugges-
tive things about that event of all events,
the "union Of hearts and union of hands,"
Marriage, it seems to me, should
be waited tor, not sought. Who knows
round what corner his destiny may be
hiding-at what unexpected turn he may
come upon the face above all faces for
him? To put aside, as far as possible,
the thought of marriage until compelled
to think Of it by some strong and special
attraction toward some special person, is
wiser than TO be seeking in every chance
acquaintance the possible husband or
wife, I'VE shall meet the people who are
coming to meet u.s. no matter in what
far of land their journey toward us be-
gins.
perhaps parents are more to blame for
worldly marriages than we are apt to
think. How constantly we hear the term
married we'll applied, not to character or
congeniality or true fitness, but to COM
Portable income. And yet there is some
thing to be said for the stern parent of
the novels, with his hard facts This
old adage, that when poverty comes in
at the door love flies out of the window
is true only OF small and poor natures
natures incapable Of great love; but it
is, nevertheless, true that to be loved it
is necessary to be lovely, and that it is far
more difficult to be lovely when we are
hard pressed by want and rendered fret
full by care and overwork. Human crea-
lures cannot build their nests asinexpen-
sively as the birds do, and not even the
scant hospitality of homestead caves or
orchard boughs awaits their fedglings.
To marry for money, or for any object
whatever save and except immortal and
all-powerful love, is to perjure and debase
the human heart; but to marry without
some provision for the future, such as
money, or moneys worth in a well-fur-
nished mind and a capacity for skilled
labor, is to defy common sense and in
woke the evil fates."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09

at times, too, the very majesty of a
principle will make what in another case
would scarcely have attracted notice ap-
pear extravaganza. The higher a tree
rises, the wider is the range Of its oscilla-
tons; and thus it comes to pass that
there is bat step from the sublime to
the ridiculous. Nor is it merely that the
effect is deepened by the contrast. There
is ever a Socratic playfulness In true
magnanimity; so that feeling the made
quateness of all earthly raiment, finding
too that, even when it comes to its home,
it must come as stranger and an alien,
= it is not unwilling to clothe itself,
like the godlike Ulysses in rags. At
nothing else can one laugh with such
goodwill, and at the same time with
such innocence and good humor. Nor
can any laugh be freer from that con-
tempt which has SO erroneously been sup
posed to be involved in the feeling of the
ridiculous. The st sadfast assurance. and
unshakable loyalty of love are evinced'
not in blinking and looking aside from
the object we profess to regard, and leer-
ing on some imaginary counterfeit, some
puppet Of our own fancies, tricked out in
such excellencies as our gracious caprice
may bestow on it; but in gazing fixedly
at our friend such as he is, admiring
what is great in him, approving what is
good, delighting in what is amiable, and
retaining our admiration and appreciation
and delight, unsullied and unimpaired, at
the very moment when we are wildly
conscious that he is still but man, and
has something in him of human weak
ness, something of whimsical popularity,
or something of disproportionate enthu-
siasm.- Julius Charles Hare, IN Guesses
at Truth.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
HINDoo KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

HINDOO KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
Tie Hindoo religion enjoins one to be
kind and merciful to all living creatures.
To put to death any creature that hes
life is an objectionable sin to Hindoo,
while to protect it is one of the highest
virtues. Beasts, birds, reptiles and in
sects are as much the object of the Hin
DOCS kindness as human kind. The Hin
docs of the higher castles never take flesh.
They live entirely on milk and vegeta-
bles. Hindoos of certain sects take
meat, but they would not eat it unless it
be Of a goat, sacrificed before god or
goddess. They would never think Of
shooting bird or killing beast.
They look upon the European practice
of hunting and shooting as barbarous.
They distribute rice and corn to crows
and other birds every day. India is the
land of snakes, most of them being Of the
most venomous kinds. But the Hindoos
are not less warm in their kindness
toward these creatures. Snakes that
have taken refuge in a Hindoo's house
are never killed by the inmates. They
are regarded as guests, and allowed to
wander in the house, unmolested and
untouched. - Neac Orleans Times Demo-
GRAFT
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
TAKE CARE OF YOUR EYES.

Never read by twilight, moonlight, or
on cloudy days.
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.
Never read or sew directly in front Of
the light window or door.
1t is best to let the light fall from above
obliquely over the left shoulder.
Do not use the eyesight by light 30
scant that it requires an effort to discrim-
mate.
Never sleep SO that on first awakening
the eyes shall open on the light Of win
dow.
Never begin to read, write or sew for
several minutes after coming from dark
ness to light.
The moment you are instinctively
prompted to rub your eyes that moment
stop using them.
II the eyslids are glued together on
waking up do not forcibly open them,
but apply saliva with the finger; it is the
speediest dilutant in the world; then
wash your eyes and face In warm water.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
THE BENEFIT OF OBEYING A
WIFE.

A clergyman travelling through the vii
lage of Kettle, in Fife, was called into
an inn to officiate at a marriage, instead
OF parish minister, who, from some &C.
cident, was unable to attend, and had
caused the company to wait for consid-
cradle time. While the reverend gentle
man was pronouneing the admonition,
and just as he had told the bridegroom
to love and honor his wife, the said BRIDE
groom interiected the words, sand obey"
which he thought had been omitted from
oversight, though that is part of the rule
laid down solely to the wife.
The minister, surprised to find hus-
band willing to be henpecked by antici-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
The 9tun1e Gire1e.
LIFE, LOVE, POWER, AND DEATH.

As a desolate bird that through darkness its
lost way is winging,
AS a hand that is helplessly raised when
Deaths sickle is swinging,
So is lifel Aye, the life that lends passion and
breath to my singing.
AS nightingsle's song that is full of sweet
ness unspoken,
AS a spirit unbarring the gates of the skies
for a token,
So is Lowell Aye, the love that shall fall when
his pinion is broken.
AS the tramp of the legions when trumpets
their challenge are sending,
AS the shout of the Storm god when light
nings the black sky are rending.
So is power Aye, the power that shall lie In
the dust at it's ending.
So short is our life; yet with space for all
things to forsake us,
A bitter delusion, dream from which naught
can awake us,
Till deaths logging footsteps at morn or at
eve shall oertake us.
H. Rider Hdgodrd,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
OLD MAIDS.

Henry Ward Beecher said OF old mai DIS
that they we're truly the salt of the earth,
and would take the highest seats in heav-
en-. 1t is the fault of education that au
"old maid" is held up to ridicule and refer
red TO with opprobrium; but surely wo-
man who remains single because her duty
to others demands it is deserving of the
highest praise-and scores of cases come
to my mind while thinking of these grand
souls, where women have remained un-
married to care for aged parents or
bring up orphaned families; and equally
is she to be commended, who, from a
sense of duty to herself, does not marry
because in the opportunities offered she
feels that she cannot realize her ideal OF
true marriage, and prefers rather to be
called an sold maid" than TO undergo
the misery and loss OF selt-respect sure
to result from an uncongenisl union
Mrs. E. G. Cook, M. d., in DemOrests
Monthly.
HEROES.
Heroes like orbs of light, are given.
To bless the human race;
And in whatever cline they rise,
The worlds their native plaee.-lI35.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09

We have no right to kill ourselves and
call it zeal; and. perhaps, if we we're to get
at the root of the evil in such case, We should
find it not in public spirit, but in personal
ambition.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09

6ulOSy Oh one OF our COlOn1StS, TO the
memory Of his aged friend:
For rich array cared not fig,
And wore Elisha's periwig,
At ninety-three had comely face,
Adorned with majesty and grace,
Before he went among the dead,
He children's children's children had.
Absurd as it may seem, advertisements
used sometimes to find their way into ep-
itaphs, notable among which is one in q
cemetery near Paris:
Here lies Fourier pierre Victorj
Inventor of Everlasting Lamps
Which burn only one centime's worth of oil in
an hour.
He was Good Father Son and Husband,
His Inconsolable Widow
Continues his business at No. 10 Rue aux Trois.
Goods sent to all parts of the city.
N. B.-Do not mistake the opposite shop for
this.
In the State of Maine there is an in
scription sacred to the memory OF one
Who died August the 9th, 1900 His widow,
who mourns as one who can be comforted
aged twenty-four, and possessing every quail
fication for good wife, lives at - Street.
in this village.
It is told on reliable authority that in
the State of Tennessee, the following in
scription is found on tombstone:
She lived a life of virtue and died of cholera
morbus caused by eating green fruit in the
hope of blessed immortality at the early age
of 81 years months and 16 days. Reader, go
thou and do likewise.
Only little less absurd is an epitaph
in an English churchyard;
Here lies the body
of
Lady o. Looney,
Great niece of Burke,
Commonly called 1.-THE Sublime"
She was
Bland, passionate, and deeply religious;
Also she painted
In water colors,
And sent several pictures
To the Exhibition.
She was f1rst-consin
To Lady Jones. II
And of such
Is the Kingdom of Heaven.
A tombstone near Lake Superior marks
the grave of one
Accidentally shot as mark of affection by
His Brother.
Many years ago young lady died IN
Vermont, and the Historical Gazetteer of
that State printed an eulogy on her
death, from which the following extract is
taken:
Methinks that angels tuned her harp
That she might join their song;
And oh, what joys do fill my heart
To think she'll sing SO long.
Come, Saviour, come, prepare my heart,
By eanctifying grace,
That may be prepared to go
And sing eternal bass.
After all, it matters but little what
ones epitaph is. Shakespeare was in the
right when he made Hamlet say to Polo
MUS:
"After your death you were better
have bad epitaph than their i'll report
while you live."-N. FL. Knoc, in The
Current.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
bookseller is the following inscription in

bookseller is the following inscription in
Latin:
When heaven reviewed the original text,
Twas with errdtds few perplexed.
Pleased with the COPY, was collated
And to a better life translated,
But let to life this supplement
Be printed on thy monument,
Lest the first page of death should be,
Great editor, a blank to thee,
And thou who many titles gave,
Should want one title for this grave.
Stay, passenger, and drop a tear,
Here lies noted Bookseller.
This marble index here is placed,
To tell that when he found defaced
His book of life, he died with grief.
Yet he, by true and genuine belief,
A new edition may expect,
Far more enlarged and more correct
A writer of some note two centuries
ago, buried in Westminster Abbey, has
the inscription:
Here lies proof that wit can be
Defense against mortalitie.
This, like many another epitaph, is I'M
truthful, since both the authors name
and writings have shared the fate of OBJ.
livion. In pleasing contrast to this is the
simple epitaph which marks the grave of
the gifted Madame De Stael:
Here rests one who in her life never rested.
A tombstone at Stirling Castle, in
Scotland, has special reference to fnan-
cial affairs as related to diet:
Our life is but winters day,
Some early breakfast and away,
Others to q dinner stay
And on full fare.
The Oldest man but eats
And goes to bed;
Large is his expense,
That fingers out the day.
He that goes soonest
Has the least to pay.
Unlike this sentiment is the loving
eulogy of one of our colonists, to the
memory Of his aged friend:
For rich array cared not fig,
And wore Elisha's periwiQ,
At ninety-three had comely face,
Adorned with majesty and grace,
Before he went among the dead,
He children's children's children had.
Absurd as it may seem, advertisements
used sometimes to find their way into ep-
itaphs, notable among which is one in q
oa,,,aforu paor porio.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02

sfyszaf. Movie: nj tn ON
prawi mi to samo, co poprzednlo,
re ich ks. llorbaczewski do Zwiazku
Katolickiego chciaf dostac.
ia mu ma to, zeby sic trzymac
iiednosci, az przyjdzie czas.
Powicdzia} mi ~jeszcze kumoter,
IL ma tym mityngu ktos powiedzial
ks. lIorbaczewskiemu, re choGby
so ma kawa}ki porabali, to on do
tego Zjednoczenia ME przystapi,
ale raczej do Zwiazku Mar. Pol,
kt6ry juz trzech biskupdw, w tel
liczbic Najprz. rs, Arcybiskup st.
Paulski, potwierdzi}o.
Warus wqsolt1s.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02
PEACCIE IA
EGka poIskis Z Amer yki
Waruso dochodzqce.

SLOWACY W Nanticoke,
Pa, beda sobie budowali kos
cio1 rzymsko-katolicki. Dnia
rs MAYA by} tam Wielebny
rs. Biskup Ochara z ksiedzem
madziarskim, umiejqcym do
brze pc s1owacku, w celu
zbadanie stosunkow parafii
%sfowackiej i wybrania stoso-
wnego ola koscio1a miejsca.
Ksiadz, ktory by] z biskupem,
obemie te paralia. Polacy
powinnl sic jaknajhojniej PREY
czyniaG do ofar ma ten kus-
ciof. DO i S1owacy DUO Po-
lakom ma TAXI sam eel poma-
gall.
PAN SUSKIND, ME mo-
gao zniesc powietrza W Nan
ticoke, p%rzeprowadzif sic do
Wllkesbarre.
BUFFALO. W pisem :
ku politycznem Ngwonek, "a
wiecajacem tylko artykuliki
originalne, wprawnem, lubo
troche ostrem plorem p. j g.
ia "a wis4y pisane,
znajdu]emy nastepujaca notat-
Ike: ,,Przy kosciele sw. Woj-
ciecha W East-Buffalo utwo.
rzyfa sic kompania ,,Ufanow
polskich," sk}adajaca sic z
dzielnych wiarus6w. Instruk-
torem tel kompanii jest p.
zurek i p. Wesofowski, a ka-
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02
ZAPISUJCIE SOBIE WIARUSA!
NabozehistwoZa}obne
"a dusze
%KRASZEWSKIEGO.

Chicago, dnia 26go maja Str.
Il inicyatyNy Tow. G m i
P olska W Chicago,
ma l2ty ulicy PREY Blue
| s | an d, w koscjele Ojcow
Jezuitow odbedzie sic solenne
nabozenstwo za1obne, ma kt0-
re zapraszamy Chicago wszy-
stk;e Narodowe Koscielne
Tow, wog6lc wszystklcE Po-
lakow i Polk, ably wspolnie
uczcic Zastugi talk zacnego me.
ia a syna Polskl, ,jakim oyf
S. y j. l.. KrasZewski. kto
by 2 Rodakow ehcial dolaozyG
swGj kwiatek do upiekszenia
lzatafalu, mole takowy z1o-
i've do Komitetu, dnia l7go
czer~ca t. r, pod M. 73l
West 18th Str. u CD X. Po-
krzywihskiego.
Adalia Satalecki
Kajetan Pckrzywihski
Jan Muszyhski.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02
o lndyanach sic rozpisuja.
MANISTEE, Mich = Dai

MANISTEE, Mich. - Dnia
% maja robotnik nazwiskivm
b mil r a d z~astrzelif
fuzya niejakiegos Louis Nickel
son, ktory miaf jakies stosun-
XII Z jego 1ona. ugodzony padl
trupem ma miejscu. Stafo sic
to 8 mil Cd Manistee. d. r a.
2 $, popelniwszy to zab5j-
stwo, udaf sic ma spoczynek
i oczekiwai w lozku, al przy-
byf szeryf M. Bawman 2 po-
mocnikaml, poczem spokojnie
poszedf do wiezenia. Co sic
dalej stanie, to poznle.j donio-
se.--Kuda.
ZAPISUJCIE SOBIE WIARUSA!
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02
E6DMA E ET'.

" Kmye1ze PolsA7,m W Pa
ryzu spotykamy nastepujqca
notatke: ,,General Maryan
Langlevlcz umarl dnia II ma
Ia W konstantynopolu, gdzle
przebywat Cd :. 1874, majac
posade jake k%ontroler dcsta-
wlanych armat przcz fobryke
kruppa".
Obszerniejsz q nekrologiq Z
lego zycia podamy W nastep-
nym numerze.
Podlug czerniowieckiej Ga
sety PozsATej general Maryan
Langlewicz umarl maggie W
WledEiu, dniu IL maja.
IL AUSTRALIA S,nutna mad
chodzi wiadomost O smierci
sp- DR.. Jozefa Sa b a w
sklego. Dokonawszy prawem
zalSazanej operacyi ma jakiejs
PAM Yates w Paddington,
Sydney, ktora wkrotcv umarla,
poradl W rozpacz, pcszedl do
lasku / sic otrul. w kiesze-
hi pierslowej jego surduta INA
leziono diva kawaiki papieru.
Ma jednYm by}o napisape pc
angielsku: ,,Jestem DR.. Jozef
Sabatowski, lat Ago. Prey
zwlokach leza1a flaszeczka 2
p}ynem, ma ktorej korku by1o
wydrukowane ,,Canth". Ma
grooie nieboszczyka pfocze
nieszczesliwa, przedwczesnie
owdowia}a coma. Powylsza
notatSa jest wyciagiem z wy
clnku 2 pisma austra]skiego,
przeslanego Warusoui przez
OBJ. f. S k 8 rnickiego
Jersey City, N. j.
DE A1lrIE " iI1AnI1r
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02

tygodniki warszawskie teraz
pielegnowac nam trzeba kwia-
TEX, wschodzqcy ma niwie pol.
skiei W Ameryce. Nicola;
ka2dy miarus uwazia sic "a
stro2a tel narodowej rosliny, a
jezeliby kto zbrodniczq reka
usilowa} ia zniszczye, niechaj
z oburzeniem Zawo}a: Hands
off, panic Suwarow! Me ruszaj
Dzwonu Z polskiego plcnu,
DO CT, padalcze, utniemy pal
ce!